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A Leftist Ontology Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics Carsten Strathausen Foreword by William E. Connolly Table of Contents		$25.00 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5030-9 $75.00 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5029-3
A new ontology for a globalized world Rich with analyses of concepts from deconstruction, systems theory, and post-Marxism, with critiques of fundamentalist thought and the war on terror, this volume argues for developing a philosophy of being in order to overcome the quandary of postmodern relativism. Undergirding the contributions are the premises that ontology is a vital concept for philosophy today, that an acceptable leftist ontology must avoid the kind of identity politics that has dominated recent cultural studies, and that a new ontology must be situated within global capitalism. A Leftist Ontology offers a timely intervention in political philosophy, featuring some of the leading voices of our time. Contributors: Bruno Bosteels, Cornell U; Christopher Breu, Illinois State U; Nicholas Brown, U of Illinois at Chicago; Sorin Radu Cucu, Manhattan College; George Edmondson, Dartmouth College; Eva Geulen, U of Bonn; Philip Goldstein, U of Delaware; Klaus Mladek, Dartmouth College; Alberto Moreiras, U of Aberdeen; Jeffrey T. Nealon, Pennsylvania State U; William Rasch, Indiana U; Ben Robinson, Indiana U; Imre Szeman, McMaster U; Roland Vegso, U of Tennessee, Knoxville. Carsten Strathausen is associate professor of German and English at the University of Missouri. He is the author of The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900. William E. Connolly is professor and chair of political science at The Johns Hopkins University. 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 2009 Table of Contents Foreword: The Left and Onto-Politics William E. Connolly Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Outside In Carsten Strathausen I. Agamben, Violence, and Redemption 1. The Structure of the Political vs. the Politics of Hope William Rasch 2. The Function of Ambivalence in Agamben’s Re-Ontlogization of Politics Eva Geulen II. The Persistence of Marxism 3. Twenty-Five Theses on Philosophy in the Age of Finance Capital Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman 4. Periodizing the 80’s: The Cultural Logic of Economic Privatization in the United States Jeffrey T. Nealon 5. Marxist Theory: From Aesthetic Critique to Cultural Politics Philip Goldstein 6. Is Socialism the Index of a Leftist Ontology? Benjamin Robinson III.Deconstruction/Politics 7. Deconstruction and Experience: The Politics of the Undeconstructible Roland Végsö 8. Politics and the Fiction of the Political Sorin Radu Cucu 9. The Last God: María Zambrano’s Life Without Texture Alberto Moreiras IV.Psychoanalysis and the Political 10. Signification and Substance: Toward a Left Ontology of the Present Christopher Breu 11. A Politics of Melancholia Klaus Mladek and George Edmondson Afterword: Thinking, Being, Acting, or, On the Uses and Disadvantages of Ontology for Politics Bruno Bosteels Contributors Index

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